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NKorea military threatens
countermeasures against South: report
AFP
Thursday, April 3, 2008
North Korea's military on Thursday threatened unspecified
countermeasures after South Korea refused to apologise for remarks
by its top general, a news report said, as cross-border tensions
escalated.
"We will take military countermeasures,"
the North's chief delegate to inter-Korean military talks, Lieutenant
General Kim Yong-Chol, was quoted as saying by Yonhap news agency
in a notice sent to the South.
There was no official response to the comments. Media reports
said the North's powerful military might close the border to cut
off exchanges.
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The communist state had demanded an apology for remarks made
last week by South Korea's new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff (JCS), General Kim Tae-Young. It interpreted these as hinting
at a preemptive military strike.
Seoul's defence ministry on Wednesday rejected the apology demand
and urged the North to stop raising tensions.
"The South's reply made yesterday was nothing but shenanigans,"
Kim Yong-Chol was quoted as saying by Yonhap.
A defence ministry spokesman confirmed that a message had been
received from the North but declined to specify the contents.
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